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Single-Serving Wine Glass |
| Want to gulp down some wine without the need of a bulky bottle and separate glass? |
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Shaking Recharges Batteries |
| Brother Industries has your back with their new Vibration-powered Generating Battery prototype. |
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Flowlab Skateboard: Like Surfing on Concrete |
| If you’re an extreme sports junkie, then you may be interested in giving the Flowlab Skateboard, or the Flowboard, a spin. |
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Guitar (Han) Solo |
| Do-It-Yourselfer Travis S managed to transform an old Star Wars Millennium Falcon (for the less geeky that’s Han Solo’s ride) play-set into a working electric guitar. |
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Luggage Gets a Modern Re-Design |
| Designer Alberto Villareal and Agent, a strategic intelligence embassy based in Mexico, took a look at the standard luggage design and decided it was time for modern nomads to receive an upgrade. |
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“Spider-Boy” Builds Machine to Scale Walls |
| This 13-year-old “Spider-Boy” named Hibiki Kono announced to his parents and teachers that he would build a device to let him climb walls just like Spider-Man. |
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Star Wars Characters in Designer Threads |
| Fashion illustrator John Woo (not the famous action movie director) has created a series of fashion drawings called “He Wears It”. |
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Glowing Wood Furniture |
| Want to add some unique lighting to your décor while spicing up the traditional ottoman, stool or coffee table designs? |
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Pantone Hotel |
| If you’re a career obsessed designer who refuses to leave the office behind, even during vacations, then I have the perfect place for you to stay on your next trip – the Pantone Hotel. |
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Glowing Currency |
| It can be frustrating to dig around your wallet or purse in a low-light situation, looking for the right denomination to hand off. |
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Free Online Pantone Alternative |
| While Pantone isn’t going anywhere and won’t be changing its ways any time soon, designers do have another option: Colourlovers. |
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Treadmill Bicycle |
| For those of you with an unhealthy attachment to running in place, but might be considering braving the great outdoors for a change, here’s something that’ll ease you into the transition – the treadmill bicycle! |
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LightForm: World’s First Flexible LED Lighting Film |
| Grote, the global leader in vehicle and transportation lighting, has developed LightForm, the world’s first flexible LED lighting film. |
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Conserve Water with New Hose Nozzle |
| If you’re botanically-inclined, I hope your garden looks amazing. But how many gallons of water are you wasting just by watering your plants? |
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Horrifically Clever Stationary |
| While you can’t purchase this gory zombie-themed stationary for your own personal use, that shouldn’t stop you from staring in awe at its blood-soaked brilliance. |
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Rubik’s Cube for the Blind |
| While generations of kids and adults have wrestled with and cursed the cube there’s a whole demographic out there who haven’t had the privilege. Why? Because they’re visually impaired. |
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Playing Musical Chairs, Literally |
| With each rock, the chair creates a noise that mimics the sounds of the beach, namely the relaxing sand and surf and not so much the people screaming “shark!”. |
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Electric Guitar Shirt You Can Actually Play |
| The brilliant minds at Think Geek have created an awesome shirt that doubles as a real musical instrument. |
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Lace-A-Matic |
| Tired of always lacing and unlacing your shoes every time you slip them on? There’s a new gadget that could alleviate some of your frustration. |
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Plant Furniture |
| Designer Kai Linke has an idea to utilize nature’s fast growing plant-life in hopes of building cheap and durable furniture without the traditional high material, transportation and design costs associated with producing typical pieces. |
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Pantone Cufflinks |
| They’re useful, attractive, unusual and would make the perfect gift for the design conscious man in your life. |
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Vespa Chair |
| . Now you can kick back on a Vespa whenever you want without worrying about strapping on a pesky helmet. |
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Zombies Really Tie a Room Together |
| The zombie apocalypse is nigh! At least that’s what your friends, family and neighbors will think when they see this great Zombie Shadow Caster created by the folks at Evolution Laser Works. |
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Edgy Chandeliers |
| Ever want a chandelier in the shape of a big revolver or giant spider? Whatever your taste, there’s a company that can create a chandelier to your specifications. |
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Hair Umbrella |
| From the vault of practically useless things comes (drum roll, please)…the Haircut Umbrella! |
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Finally: Tangle-Free Zip Up Earbuds |
| Audiophiles have been wrestling with earbud wires for decades and we’re only just now beginning to address the issue by developing plausible solutions. |
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Disposable Sunglasses |
| Constantly losing or breaking your sunglasses? Tired of always hunting for a new pair that fit your style? Sounds like you might be able to appreciate disposable sunglasses. |
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Office Pod |
| The Office Pod could be the future of corporate offices. |
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Coffee Table Hammock |
| If you own a cat or twenty E&Y has just released a coffee table your fury diva will love. |
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A World of Pantone |
| It seems as though everything imaginable is now a Pantone labeled product. |
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Magazine Chair |
| One part Captain Kirk’s chair (seriously, it’s just missing blinking buttons) and one part functional bookshelf, this HOI Magazine Chair is a project from Dutch furniture designers Jules & Jeremy. |
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Van Gogh Mug |
| What better way to show your appreciation for the artist and his work than this Dear Van Gogh mug by artist Mike Mak. |
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Design Concept: Day & Night Marks |
| Day & Night Marks is a design concept by Sun Xiaowen, Yu Guangwen, Ding Meiyuan, Du Renhua and Qiu Song. The concept uses luminous materials to absorb light during the day and produce light at night. |
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LED Illuminated Sofas |
| If you’re re-decorating in hopes of making your living room a lot more ostentatious you certainly won’t go wrong with these LED lit couches. |
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Kitchen Table Transforms Into a Playhouse |
| Kids love building forts in an attempt to create a space that’s cozy and solely theirs, and they’ll use any materials necessary to get the job done – pillows, sheets, furniture, you name it! Why not make their construction process a wee bit easier with this table by Ingrid Brandth? |
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A Hidden Extension Cord in the Wall |
| cords aren’t always as long as they need to be. |
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High-Res Photo Wallpaper |
| Sick and tired of boring wallpaper with its traditional solid colors and floral prints? Why not cover a wall from floor to ceiling with a hyper-realistic, natural landscape? |
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Shag Rugs With an Outdoorsy Style |
| Sick of area rugs covered with abstract, antique-ish and sometimes pretentious designs? Want a rug that’s a little more, well, rugged and natural looking? |
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Pantone Folding Chairs |
| 672 C Pastel Pink, 186 C Ruby Red, 377 C Macaw Green, 14-0848 Mimosa, 268 C Royal Purple and Cool Gray. |
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Funbrella |
| It’s a digitally enhanced umbrella that simulates virtual rain, giving the user a feeling of rainfall without the actual weather phenomenon. |
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Recapture Your Lost Youth With Food and Game Furniture |
| The imaginative folks at Jellio specialize in bringing back fun childhood memories as unique home furnishings. |
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Finding Inspiration in Creative Packaging Designs |
| Designers in any field draw inspiration for new creations from anywhere and anything. |
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Spark an International Incident From the Comfort of Your Living Room |
| This striking series of shelving units by Singaporean designer Daniel Love is definitely making a statement. |
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Bomb-Proof Wallpaper |
| If you live or work in a warzone or maybe just a really bad part of town, X-Flex wallpaper could save your life. |
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Pocket Light |
| Let’s face it, sometimes you need a little extra light and a bulky flashlight isn’t always conveniently on-hand. |
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Bottle Top |
| Have you ever opened a can of soda and been unable to finish the whole thing? |
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Color-Changing Cookware |
| This color-changing pot by William Spiga and Juliana Martins can tell you if it’s too hot to touch or if your food is ready just by looking at it. |
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Eco-Jewelry Made From Teeth |
| We’ve all heard that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but what about molars and bicuspids? |
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Technology Sneakers |
| Sculptor Gabriel Dishaw uses found objects such as metal and machinery to reassemble into Junk Art. |
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LED Dress |
| The Galaxy Dress is the centerpiece for an exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry and was designed by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz. |
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A Useful Tool for Germaphobes |
| Short of wearing a hazmat suit 24/7, this little tool called Touch Stick could help alleviate some of the uncertainty and paranoia that stems from navigating germy deathtraps such as ATMs, elevators, credit card and gas station pay terminals. |
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Turn Your Unused Nuclear Missile Silo Into An Underground Home |
| There are quite a few old, unused missile silos out there hidden from sight, underground. |
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How to Disappear Completely |
| What if you glanced into a mirror and saw your surroundings reflected clearly, but your own image was nowhere to be seen? |
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Hanging Wall Furniture |
| This wall-mounted furniture concept by Nicole Losos was inspired by mountain landscapes and designed to serve as a modular form of custom seating. |
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A Literal Tree House |
| Perhaps when Tasmanian officials asked for a tree house they should have been a little more specific. |
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The World’s Most Uncomfortable Chairs |
| Whether at home or work, the comfort level of a chair can make your day nice and relaxing or painful and unending. |
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LEGO Home Demolished |
| Earlier this year British television presenter James May built a whimsical LEGO house as a toy challenge for his BBC series James May’s Toy Stories. |
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Umbrellas Become Skirts |
| If you compare the shape of umbrellas and skirts I guess someone could say they have a little something in common. |
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Pattern Light Fixtures Create Unique Shadows |
| Why have ordinary, boring light fixtures when you can have unique fixtures that are capable of transforming the look and feel of a room? |
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High-Tech Wedding Ring Has a Secret |
| Composed of titanium and steel, this band conceals the gemstone rather than flaunt it. |
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Shipping Containers Become Office Space |
| Good office space can be hard to come by, and even then it doesn’t come cheap. |
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Pet Shower Curtains |
| It’s great having a dog until you have to clean up after them. |
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Flower Pot Safe |
| The Flower Pot Safe is a great hiding place for valuables and should blend in pretty well with your home’s décor. |
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A Slave to Fashion… |
| The lengths some will go to be fashionable is a bit disturbing. Dornob is profiling six of the most painful looking women’s boots and shoes to limp down the runway. |
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Ping Pong Door |
| Franzel’s ping pong door looks like a normal door from one side. Open it and you’ll find a ping pong table on the other. |
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Toaster Lets You Write on Breakfast |
| Sasha Tseng has developed a quirky new way to toast your bread while non-verbally communicating with loved ones on those groggy mornings. |
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Renewable Dresses |
| Designer Fernando Brizio has designed a dress that can be (air quotes!) “recycled”. |
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Student Designs for $1 |
| Students from New York City’s Pratt Institute of Design were tasked with creating a useful, worthwhile design…but there was a catch. The students only had a dollar to work with. |
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Sketchcast Your Ideas |
| Doodling ideas and notes on napkins just doesn’t cut it in today’s tech-snob world. |
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Wooden Block Sticky Notes |
| They keep releasing the handy notepads in a wider and wider range of colors and sizes, and now comes this – fake wood grain patterned sticky notes. |
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Bedside Rug with Built-In Slippers |
| Perhaps you left the comfy shoes in another room or accidentally kicked them under the bed as you crawled in. What’s a groggy, barefoot individual to do? |
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DIY Inspirations From Prison |
| The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) trend is all the rage these days and apparently has been for some time. Nowhere is it more evident than in prison where inmates with so little are capable of making so much and hiding it well. |
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Stealth Clothing |
| Urban camouflage and disguises are a somewhat artistic and humorous way to have a little fun. You remember fun, don’t you? |
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Rainbow Created using 5000 Pantone Chips |
| If Basheer Graphic Books wants to promote Pantone color books to art college students and faculty, how would they go about it? |
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Modular Floor Pillows |
| ZipZip floor cushions provide a great alternative to traditional furniture for cash-strapped college kids or anyone else for that matter. |
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Cityscape Black-Out Blinds |
| Wish you had a gorgeous, unobstructed skyline view from your apartment, but in reality have a fantastic view of the neighboring building’s dumpster, fire escape or brick wall? |
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DJ Mouse |
| Are you sick of using the same dull mouse that Corporate hands out to everyone else? |
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Clever Container Keeps Milk Fresh |
| Milk. It’s one of those things you have to have, but it can be a pain to keep fresh. |
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What’s Your Problem? |
| Have a simple physical ailment (allergies, headache, etc) that needs curing? Cut to the chase with these Help Remedies packets that allow you to easily identify your problem and fix it. |
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Lids Transform Tin Cans Into Useful Containers |
| Not sure what to do with that tin can once its contents have become part of your dinner? |
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Earthquake-Proof Housing |
| If you reside in an earthquake-prone area, this next bit of information may interest you. |
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Practically Waterless Washing Machine |
| Xeros Ltd’s new washing machine could change the way you clean clothing. |
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Waken Productions |
| If you’ve ever set foot inside a Halloween haunted house you’ve probably had a spine-chilling encounter with a frightening animatronic creature. Ever wonder who’s responsible for building these contraptions and how they do it? |
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Size Changing Shoes |
| Kids grow quickly. That means as their feet get larger they go through pair after pair of shoes. What if there were a shoe that could accommodate these daily growth spurts? |
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Brush & Rinse Toothbrush |
| Amron Experimental’s brush-and-rinse toothbrush has a simple design that can solve a common problem. |
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Hidden Wall-Beds |
| A pull-out bed for the 21st century. |
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Shark Fin Tea Infuser |
| I think we’re gonna need a bigger tea cup. |
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FUNature |
| FUNature is a line of furniture created by designer Hugh Hayden. The thing that makes Hayden’s collection so fun is what inspired it: ball-pools. |
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Idea Paint |
| First there was wallpaper you could color. Now there’s Idea Paint. What’s with everyone wanting to write on walls!? |
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Glowing Air-Filled Furniture |
| The Via Lattea furniture collection by Mario Bellini isn’t your average living room set. |
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Cardboard Office |
| In today’s economy companies are looking to cut costs in every aspect of office life. So, why not start by actually cutting out the office? |
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Color Your Own Clothing |
| Unhappy with the color choices available for your clothing? Now you can pick your very own color scheme and do it yourself. |
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Throwing Knife Coat Hooks |
| These sharp-looking throwing knife hangers are bound to make visitors feel a little wary in your home. |
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Clever (Maybe?) Kitchenware Designs |
| Kitchenware tends to be a little on the dull side. Once you’ve seen one blender you’ve seen them all, right? Well, here’s some kitchenware designs intended to make kitchen duties a little easier and a lot more fun. |
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Personal Mini Kitchen |
| Designer Kai Yu’s Personal Mini Kitchen is designed with the young, single generation of China in mind. The kitchen saves space by acting as food storage, stove, fridge, drink cooler, dinnerware and communications center. |
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Miesrolo Chair |
| Designer Uros Vitas’ Miesrolo Chair is designed to be rolled up for easy storage while still being able to support the weight of an adult. |
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Green Packaging for Fast Food |
| One University of the Arts grad student has designed some fast food packaging that could make your trip through the drive-thru a little Greener. |
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Color Picker Pen |
| Write in your favorite colors with this cool new design concept. |
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Pillow Suit: For Those Late Nights at the Office |
| Finally, a more comfortable way to nap at work. |
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Sheep + LEDs = Art? |
| This video is an obvious commercial for Samsung LEDs, but a rather innovative, unique and unusual one. |
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New Perspective Table |
| Pretend you have x-ray vision with this “see-through” table. |
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Audiowood Turntables |
| Audiowood is looking to breach the gap between cold, impersonal electronics and nature with their line of wooden turntables. |
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The Standby Office |
| For the businessman (shady, or otherwise) on the go comes this portable cubicle. |
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Astronaut Invents Zero-G Coffee Cup |
| The On-Orbit Coffee Cup hopes to make it easier for astronauts floating through space sip their morning coffee with ease. |
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IIDA Awards |
| The IIDA held its annual meeting in Chicago last month where it presented designers with various awards. |
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Bear Shaped Sleeping Bag |
| Getting mauled has never been so fun! |
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Skinless Skin-Tight Cycling Suit |
| Cycling suits are usually pretty skin-tight, but what happens when you remove the skin? |
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Take Me Anywhere Suitcase Pillow |
| Here’s an interesting pillow design for the person on the go – Suitcase Pillows by Olive. |
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Sears Recycles Plastic Bottles Into Business Suits |
| Beginning in spring of this year, Sears began selling EcoGir business suits for men. The difference between these suits and others is that EcoGir is made from 100% recycled plastic bottle chips and wool, making it a very Green alternative. |
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Spiraling Skyscraper Farms for a Future Manhattan |
| Eric Vergne’s Dystopian Farm project envisions a New York City comprised of skyscraper farms that harness the latest technology to create a self-sustaining food source for the entire city. |
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Scooter with a Trunk…Kinda |
| Riding a scooter is an economical way to get around, but there’s one major drawback – zero storage space. |
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$19 Self-Adjusting Glasses |
| Joshua Silver is a UK physicist who has found a cheap and practical way to change the curvature of lenses, thus creating an affordable gadget that can assist the developing world. |
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Scissor Clothes Hanger |
| This makes hanging clothes in the closet so much easier. |
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Dead Fred Pen Holder |
| The Dead Fred Pen Holder is a bizarre design for a useful product. |
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Ashtray Predicts Your Death |
| Here’s something that’ll finally get you to quit smoking. |
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Storage Lamp |
| Apparently, women love jewelry. It has also come to my attention that sometimes they have trouble keeping up with their jewelry. The Sophia Lamp, designed by Baba Akcja, attempts to solve this problem. |
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Porcelain Note Pad |
| The Shelton Memory Stone aims to solve one of life’s biggest problems: Never having a pen and paper when you need one. |
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Collar Style Coat Hook |
| Here’s a clever coat hanger design from Nicola From Bern. |
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Add Some Color to Your Glasses |
| Bored with the look of your glasses? Want the option to change the color of the frames any time you want? |
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Double-Sided Slippers |
| Here’s a design concept from 2008 by a Chinese company by the name of Newplan Design Co: Double-Sided slippers. |
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Bike With Roof = About Time |
| This bike could go a long way in making cyclists more comfy. |
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Make Your Own Muppet |
| Over at FAO Schwartz you can design your very own Whatnot muppet. |
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Rubik 360 – A New Level of Frustration |
| The Rubik’s Cube has left many determined problem-solvers stumped for decades. |
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Watch for the Blind |
| Designer Matthew Wagerfield has applied a new design concept to an age-old device to develop something brand new and practical– Sentio, the digital tactile watch. Sentio is a revolutionary watch that allows both blind and partially sighted users to use it with ease, as well as anyone else. |
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Cassette Wallets |
| I think the title pretty much sums this one up. |
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It’s A Fork! It’s a Knife! It’s a Knork! |
| Phantom Enterprises has created a unique utensil unlike anything else on the market. The Knork combines a knife and fork to enable users to both cut and spear food with one utensil, in one hand. |
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One Step Closer to a Jetsons Future |
| Dynamic Towers is a condo-skyscraper planned to be erected in Dubai. What makes Dynamic Towers stand out is that every floor of the building rotates independently. Could this be the next big thing in luxury housing? |
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Amanda Richardson: Textile Artist |
| Acclaimed UK artist Amanda Richardson is both a painter and a textile artist. |
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LED Umbrellas |
| Combining the popularity of LED lighting with the primal instinct to keep one’s hair dry has finally made umbrellas kind of cool. |
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High-top Flip-flops |
| With these new modular shoes, you can transform everyday high-top sneakers into comfy flip-flops with a quick zip. |
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Out of Sight & Out of Mind Desk |
| The Out of Sight Out of Mind desk is a design concept by Danish designer Thomas Broen. The concept is based around the idea that a properly organized and clear desk results in a user who is more efficient. |
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Pantone Espresso Cup Set |
| How would you like to kick back and share a nice espresso with your favorite Pantone color? |
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Pantone’s Spring 2009 Fashion Color Report |
| Pantone has unveiled its list of the top ten fashion colors for Spring 2009. |
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Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of |
| Rachel Wright is a Mobile, Alabama artist with a unique vision. While the artist works primarily with sculpture while mixing media with photography, wood, iron, clay, and glass, she also works with fabric. Her dresses have been seen in art galleries and museums across the country. |
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Sound Bulb Concept |
| There seems to be a new trend among designers to cram audio speakers into devices or objects they really have no purpose being inside. Take the Sound Bulb, for example. This design concept places a wireless speaker system inside an ordinary LED light bulb. |
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Periodic Table-Table |
| Theodore Gray has created a rather uncommon table. He has transformed the Periodic Table of Elements into an actual table, a coffee table to be exact. But this table doesn’t just depict element names and numbers, it also stores samples of each. |
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Cramped Quarters |
| Mulvany & Rogers have over 25 years experience re-creating historical buildings and interiors…as 1/12th scale architectural miniatures. |
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Designs to Help Students Concentrate |
| Featured on BBC’s Dragon’s Den and Discovery Channel’s What’s the Big Idea, among others, Concentrate is a new UK-based company that has spent the past couple of years studying the design of classroom furniture and equipment used by students in an attempt to enhance student concentration. |
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Fiber Optic Wallpaper |
| Seeing glowing light seeping from the walls of your home is never good, especially if you grew up in the 60s or 70s and are prone to very “special” flashbacks. But Swedish designer Camilla Diedrich has created something that will bridge the generation gap and cause everyone to safely see the same pretty-pretty colors and bright, shiny lights – glowing wallpaper. |
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The United Nation’s New Grotto |
| When the United Nations wanted to redecorate the Human Rights Hall of their Geneva headquarters, they called upon renowned Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo to provide his own unique take on the redesign. |
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SeaVees Pantone Shoes |
| This might make color coordinating your outfits a little easier. |
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Making An Oscar |
| With the 81st Annual Academy Awards taking place this weekend, I thought we’d take a look at the process behind creating Oscar. |
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Picasso’s Car |
| Inspired by Picasso’s Portrait of Dora Maar, Poole, Dorset, England, auto mechanic Andy Saunders spent six months transforming an old Citroen 2CV car into a work of cubist art. |
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Rock the Casbah with a Glass Guitar |
| Artist Brian Chivers owns BC Glass Studio and has been involved with glass art for over 20 years. During this time the artist/musician began making glass guitar replicas, models for display purposes only. But it was an encounter with the legendary Les Paul that inspired Chivers to take his glass guitar model one step further – to create one that can be played. |
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NASA’s Vision of the Future Circa the 70s |
| Essentially concept art for the future, NASA’s vision of space exploration was truly epic and as of 2009, sadly unrealized. |
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Tweak Your Brain With Colors |
| Psychologists at the University of British Columbia have conducted an authoritative study on the cognitive effects of colors. Red helped subjects concentrate while blue led to greater creativity. |
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Light Blubs |
| Pieke Bergmans, a young designer from the Netherlands, has created a series of unique lamps that combine LED lighting with Royal Leerdam Crystal. Handcrafted from crystal and dubbed “Light Blub” by its creator, the lamps are described as “a light bulb that has gone way out of line. Infected by the dreaded Design Virus, these Blubs have taken on all kinds of forms and sizes you wouldn't expect from such well behaving and reliable little products.” |
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16th Century Design Portfolio |
| Medeival predecessors of today’s designers shared a similar problem – how to get their work seen. In lieu of fancy websites or notebooks they produced a portfolio book to show potential clients. Few of these books have survived to see the 21st century but one, known as the Macclesfield Alphabet Book, was recently found by the British Library. |
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Greener Gadgets Design Competition |
| It’s time for youto choose the top 10 gadgets in the 2009 Greener Gadget Design Competition. |
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This Skirt May Be Used as a Flotation Device |
| Designer Yael Mer’s quirky Evacuation Skirt was conceived after the flooding in New Orleans. She says she wanted to raise the question of whether emergency and beauty can be intertwined. “The skirt keeps its glamorous look when it’s deflated on the one hand, and on the other, it inflates into a kayak with the right amount of volume to carry a grown up woman.” |
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Hubcap Creatures |
| Ever wonder what happens to all those hubcaps people occasionally lose on the roadway or you see resting on the median? Don’t worry; they’re not out there on the streets, cold, wet, scared and all alone, having to fend for themselves. It’s quite possible they’ve gone on to a better place – they may have become Hubcap Creatures. I know it sounds horrible, like a cheap B-monster from a Sci-Fi Channel movie-of-the-week or a low-budget Transformers spoof, but it’s actually quite charming. |
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Dining in 2015 |
| Everyday around lunchtime I find myself gnawing on the end of a pen. Subconciously hoping to find a morsel of food stuck to the ballpoint, I usually end up with a mouth-full of red ink. But if the design for the din-ink ever becomes a reality, I may one day find my lunch stuck to the end of a pen. |
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The Hidden Door Company |
| Everyone loves a good secret passageway. The idea alone sparks curiosity and makes the brain buzz with thoughts of mystery and adventure. Normally these hidden doors are relegated to ancient sites and historic buildings, but what if you could put one in your very own home? Whether you have secrets to hide or just want to confuse guests, The Hidden Door Company specializes in creating practical secret doorways for the home. |
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whitespace: who we are |
whitespace is an exciting new way to create a carpet specification, using the most advanced technology to put products and information in the designer's control more completely than ever before. At whitespace, the internet is the primary manner through which business is conducted. Samples, Images, Budget and Technical Information, are at the designer's fingertips 24/7. No more foraging through the resource library. No more waiting on return phone calls with information needed to move a project along.
Register now and receive your free, one month home energy offset! whitespace is committed to reducing our carbon footprint and investing in the development of wind energy is just another way white = green. |
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Obama’s Bulletproof Wardrobe – Fashionable & Safe |
| The dust from inauguration day has settled. With the media focusing on the new First Lady’s fashion sense they’ve ignored Obama’s. Well, we’re going to remedy that by taking a look at the President’s bullet-resistant clothing. |
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BudTrap |
| iPods are great, aren’t they? You can listen to your favorite music and watch videos on the go. But what about those pesky earphones? You know the ones I’m talking about – the tiny ear buds you constantly break, lose or curse because there’s not a sleek or stylish way to keep them and the iPod together without a mile of wire flopping around, tangling or coming loose. Rest easy, valued consumer, a new company and team of designers are working on an ingenious solution called BudTrap. |
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Lego Inauguration |
| If you can’t attend the Presidential inauguration in Washtington D.C., why not the one in Legoland California? |
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How Pantone Keeps Colors Fresh |
Expo TV has a video interview with Lee Eisman, the Director of the Pantone Color Institute. In the video, Eisman discusses how Pantone chooses its colors and predicts color trends.
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Stefan Sagmeister Says Design Can Make You Happy |
Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister has created acclaimed album covers for artists such as Lou Reed, the Talking Heads and the Rolling Stones. His work has been described as both “timeless and of the moment, and his painstaking attention to the smallest details creates work that offers something new every time you look at it”.
Sagmeister is serious about his work but a whimsical sense of humor manages to peek through his designs. With that sense of humor on full display in the video below, Sagmeister speaks about some of the happiest moments of his life and notes how many of them can be attributed to good design. |
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Pantone Clothing from GAP |
Last weekend Pantone and Gap joined foces to open a pop-up shop in the company’s concrept store space on New York’s 5th Avenue. The shop, open until February 8th, sells shirts in a range of official Pantone hues.
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Hover Chair |
| Hoverit Ltd, a British company, has introduced the first piece in its line of magnetic ‘hover’ furniture. Dubbed ‘The Lounger’, the chair is built by hand and defies gravity through the use of repelling magnetic forces in both its bed and base. The feeling one has when kicked back in this lounger is like none other and has been described as “floating on a cloud”. |
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Ample Sample |
Carpet samples assist architects and designers in choosing the perfect product for their projects, but often times carpet samples are simply tossed in the dumpster once they’ve served their purpose.
Ample Sample challenges designers to “Rethink. Reuse. Upcyle.” carpet samples that have outlived their usefulness by transforming them into unique, new products. |
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Get Ready to Add the Buzzball to Next Year’s Wish List |
| Grab your barf bag and get ready to strap yourself into the Buzzball. Best described as a hamster ball for humans, the Buzzball delivers a unique rollercoaster ride where the pilot is in complete control of the ride experience. |
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Banpo Bridge: Part Fountain, All Bridge |
| The Banpo Bridge is located in Seoul, the capital of Korea, across the Han River. But this isn’t any ordinary bridge. It has been re-designed in an attempt to attract more tourism to the area. Instead of performing a complete overhaul on the bridge, designers did something much different – they added a fountain. |
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The Return of the Nomadic Existence Via Walking Homes |
Sometimes you just want to pack everything up and move away. You don’t care where as long as it’s far, far away. Maybe it’s because of the neighbors that won’t stop fighting, the local kids that trample your lawn, horrible weather, or the stray animals that leave very special surprises in your walkway.
Thanks to Denmark art collective group N55’s and MIT’s prototype pod house, now you can. |
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Robo-Ants to Colonize Mars? |
| For decades imaginations have run wild regarding Mars, its mysterious past and promising future. One very real theory is colonization of the Red Planet. Let’s face it, Earth is falling apart and getting a smidge crowded. NASA is already looking to the stars with plans to install a base on the Moon and one day Mars. But who will be the first person to set foot on our neighboring planet? Turns out it may not be a person at all, but a swarm of tiny robots. |
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Texture Book |
| Author Von R. Glitschka has created a new tool for designers in the form of his book Crumble. Crack. Burn. . The book, created by a professional for professionals, features 120 unique textures for use in design and illustration. |
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2 Jane Brings Art Design Into Your Home |
| If you’re looking to bring art into your home that’ll do more than just hang on a wall, check out 2 Jane. |
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Waterwalkerz |
| Now you too can walk on water, just like your favorite headlining Vegas magician! |
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Plastic Could Make House Lights Obsolete |
| Could flexible organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, be the future of lighting? Don’t worry; I don’t understand that sentence either. Keep reading for a jargon-free explanation. |
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Futuristic Billboards to Transform L.A into Blade Runner Dystopia |
| The retro-fitted futuristic world of the film Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford may not be as far away as one might think. Director Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic dealt with such classic questions of “what does it mean to be human” while depicting the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as a smoggy dystopian future, a cultural melting pot brimming with skyscrapers, flying cars and inescapable corporate advertisements. Almost 30 years later the film is hailed as an overlooked masterpiece and has inspired multitudes of designers, engineers and artists. Now you can also add “Real Estate Developer” to that list. Sonny Astani, a Los Angeles real estate mogul, is hoping to make one part of the film’s dystopian future a reality with 14-story animated billboards. |
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Indiana Jones and the Catwalk of Doom |
| If fashion has a name, it must be Indiana Jones. |
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Growing Jewelry |
| Last I checked basic jewelry offers a vast multitude of stylish, and some not-so-stylish, rings for consumers to choose from. We have promise rings, mood rings, earrings, engagement rings, wedding rings, class rings, Lord of the Rings (yes, Gollum’s “precious” is available to purchase). But now, thanks to Icelandic designer Hafsteinn Juliusson (try to say that five times fast), we now have moss rings. |
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DKNY Gets Graphic |
| DKNY’s new line of men’s clothing entitled 2089 is drawing its inspiration from the world of comics and graphic novels. Enlisting the help of celebrated graphic artist Paul Pope, the fashion line is based on New York City in 2089. Fusing the world of comics and fashion, the styles depict a cohesive narrative through prints and graphics on clothing. |
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Daleks ‘Exterminate’ the Competition |
| Created by Terry Nation, the pepper pot arch-villains with their single-minded need to “exterminate” have proven popular with magazine readers. A May 2005 issue of Radio Times featuring the Daleks was recently voted best UK cover of all time. The cover beat out 40 other contenders spanning more than 100 years. |
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Rubitone |
| Flipping through color swatches and Pantone books to find the perfect color or color-match for your project can become overwhelming and, quite honestly, a little annoying. Ignacio Pilotto’s design concept for the Rubitone may solve this problem and make the process a little more fun. |
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Dresses: More Than Meets the Eye |
| What if you could change your clothes without going home or carrying them around in a cumbersome bag? With this unique fashion design you’ll be able to have more wardrobe changes in a day than an awards show emcee. This futuristic dress design allows its wearer to literally transform the outfit at the press of a button, thereby having one garment with multiple styles to fit any occasion. |
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Musical Trashcan |
| Here’s something that could make taking out the trash a bit more fun - The Xylophone Bin. Made of oak and steel, the unique bin was created by Dominic Wilcox for a VIPP Charity auction in New York to raise money for Chernobyl Children’s Project International and Foodbank NYC. |
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The City of the Future |
| If we are to believe Hollywood, in the 21st century mankind should be exploring the solar system in vast starships, taking vacations on the moon, holding conversations with omniscient computers, piloting flying cars and scooting along on hover boards. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Now take a moment to look around. Still waiting on that hover board, too, huh? Get in line, bucko. But thinking about the future and its possibilities never ceases to be fascinating and exciting. |
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Furniture on the Go |
| With living spaces growing smaller and more cluttered all the time, we have an increased need for multi-functional furniture. Zaha Hadid has created an innovative design concept - Lotus Mobile Furniture. The unusual looking Mobile Furniture can be taken apart and connected in innumerable ways to create anything from a seat to a shelf. |
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Fake Plastic Trees: Radiohead Leads the Rock ‘n Roll Green Movement |
| Critically acclaimed and perennially popular, Radiohead continues to excel as not just innovative musicians but also activists. The band has created a tour blog called The Most Gigantic Flying Mouth for Sometime which details the steps they’ve taken to reduce not only their own environmental footprint, but that of their fans. From playing venues with easily accessible public transportation to becoming the first band to fully incorporate LED lighting, their blog has all the details. |
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IDSA: International Design Excellence Awards |
| So you think you have the next great idea? Well thanks to the IDEA program you can have an opportunity to prove it. Each year since 1980 the IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America) has sponsored the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) program. The IDEA program is the premier international competition honoring design excellence in products, eco-design, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts. Entries are invited from designers, students and companies worldwide. There are a lot of innovative and unique ideas out there, too. Here are a few past winners that caught our eye: |
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Video Game Boosts Learning |
| Remember when video games were bad for you? Mom and Dad would complain about how they tied up the television, kept you from playing outdoors, ruined your eyesight and wasted your time. That’s a thing of the past. Re-tooled videogames are now helping children and teens boost basic skills in reading, writing and math. |
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Billboards as Fashion Accesories |
| There are a few companies that are now producing an array of bags entirely from trash that would otherwise be sitting in a landfill. These products are one of a kind, durable and very eye-catching. |
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Fearing Crime, Japanese Devise Urban Camouflage |
| Crime rates in Japan are on the decline, but that hasn’t kept citizens from feeling anxious regarding their safety. Aya Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer in Tokyo, has devised a quirky solution: urban camouflage. |
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Digital Designers Rediscover Their Hands |
| In an age when objects are designed, built, created and repaired at the touch of a button, is there still room for manual skill or innovation with the aid of human hands? |
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Timex Skindiglo |
| Do you hate wearing watches? I do. They’re either too loose, too tight, too itchy or too heavy. But here’s an interesting design concept from Whipsaw, Inc – Timex Skindiglo. |
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| Book Release |
| Welcome to PGR, one of the nation’s leading design firms. We may have whole webisodes dedicated to our awe inspiring greatness, but don’t let that fool you – we’re just like you. Our team of designers deals with the same cast of characters and annoyances that make office life so, um, unique. PRG, it’s just like your office if it were funny. |
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